Your Trustee Directors

Appointment
Paul was appointed as Chairman of the Trustee Board on 1 March 2011, having been a Trustee Director since 1 September 2009. He is chair of the Investment Committee, and was a member of the Audit Committee until 18 May 2017. He is also non-executive chair of BTPSM, and a member of its remuneration committee.

Biography
Paul was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company Limited on 1 January 2016.

Paul is Independent Chairman of the BT Pension Scheme Trustees, and chairs the Investment Committee.  Paul is also a Governor of Motability.
 
Paul was formerly a non-executive director of WPP, NipponKoa Europe Insurance and TR Property Investment Trust, a former chairman of State Street Managed Pension Funds, is a past chairman of two British Airways Pension Funds, and a former independent non- executive chairman of Hermes Fund Managers.  Until recently when he stepped down in December 2017, Paul was an independent Trustee and Chair of the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund.
 
Paul was appointed CBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours 'for services to financial services'. He is a past President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and past chairman of NS&I (National Savings and Investments). 

Appointment
Adrian was appointed to the Trustee Board on 11 January 2011. He is chair of the Administration and Communications Committee and is a non-executive director of BTPSM and chair of its remuneration committee.

Biography
Adrian became a national official of Connect (now the Bectu Sector of Prospect) in 1987 and retired as general secretary of Connect at the end of 2009. He was lead officer on pensions matters for the BT unions from 1997 to 2003 and was chair of the trustees for the Connect Pension and Life Assurance Scheme from 2003 to 2009. Adrian is a member of the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP).

Appointment
David represents, and is a director of The Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation plc, a professional independent trustee of pension schemes. The Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation plc was appointed to the Trustee Board on 15 September 2011. He is a member of the Investment Committee and the Responsible Investment Oversight Committee. He stepped down as a member of the AVC Committee on 18 May 2017. He is also a non-executive director of BTPSM.

Biography
David has over thirty years of experience working with pension funds in both the public and private sectors, first at Morgan Grenfell as a fixed income fund manager and then at Kleinwort Benson where he was head of fixed income between 1992 and 1998. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Appointment
Ben was appointed to the Trustee Board on 11 January 2017. He was appointed as a member of the Audit Committee and the AVC Committee on 18 May 2017.

Biography
Ben has been a trustee of a number of pension schemes continuously for over thirty years, and until his recent retirement was both chair of the General Federation of Trade Unions Pension Scheme and a member of the board of governance of the Steria Defined Contribution Scheme since its creation in 2010. He has also been a trustee of the BT Retirement Plan (now the BTRSS and now a GPP) and the Accenture AHRS DC scheme.

Ben was National Secretary of the Prospect Communications, Media and Digital Sector until May 2017. In that role, he was responsible for leading all negotiations with BT (and many other telecoms employers) on pensions on behalf of Prospect members. Before becoming a union official in 1984, he worked for the Post Office as an engineer. He has a pension from the Post Office Statutory Pension Scheme and is a member of the NFOP.

Appointment
Billy was appointed to the Trustee Board on 1 September 1997. He is a member of the Investment Committee and the Responsible Investment Oversight Committee, and was a member of the Audit Committee until 18 May 2017. He is also the senior non-executive director of Hermes Fund Managers Limited.

Biography
Billy was employed by Post Office Telecommunications from 1968 to 1978. He is a former national officer of the CWU and its predecessor unions the Civil and Public Services Association and the National Communications Union (NCU). He was responsible for negotiations on pensions matters in the telecommunications and financial services sector and was the lead officer for pensions matters for the BT unions. He is a trustee of the NCU Staff Superannuation Scheme and was chair of its trustee board until 2011. He is a former trustee of the BT Retirement Plan. Billy is a member of the NFOP.

Appointment
Jim was appointed to the Trustee Board on 26 November 2012. He is a member of the Administration and Communications Committee, the Responsible Investment Oversight Committee and the AVC Committee. He is also an independent adviser to the BTPSM remuneration committee.

Biography
Jim is HR director for BT Group. He is a member of BT’s senior leadership team, a trustee of the BT Healthcare Trust and the BT Rehabilitation Trust. Jim has extensive experience in remuneration and benefits and has held senior remuneration and benefits director roles at four FTSE100 companies. He read Economics & Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and Social Studies & Quantitative Methods at the University of Oxford. He has further qualifications in Theology, Moral Philosophy & Social Ethics and in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.